Lie
by:
Caroline Bock (author)
Everybody knows, nobody’s talking. . . .Seventeen-year-old Skylar Thompson is being questioned by the police. Her boyfriend, Jimmy, stands accused of brutally assaulting two young El Salvadoran immigrants from a neighboring town, and she’s the prime witness. Skylar is keeping quiet about what...
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Everybody knows, nobody’s talking. . . .Seventeen-year-old Skylar Thompson is being questioned by the police. Her boyfriend, Jimmy, stands accused of brutally assaulting two young El Salvadoran immigrants from a neighboring town, and she’s the prime witness. Skylar is keeping quiet about what she’s seen, but how long can she keep it up? But Jimmy was her savior. . . .When her mother died, he was the only person who made her feel safe, protected from the world. But when she begins to appreciate the enormity of what has happened, especially when Carlos Cortez, one of the victims, steps up to demand justice, she starts to have second thoughts about protecting Jimmy. Jimmy’s accomplice, Sean, is facing his own moral quandary. He’s out on bail and has been offered a plea in exchange for testifying against Jimmy. The truth must be told. . . .Sean must decide whether or not to turn on his friend in order to save himself. But most important, both he and Skylar need to figure out why they would follow someone like Jimmy in the first place.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312668327 (0312668325)
Publish date: August 30th 2011
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 207
Edition language: English
This review also at The Book Babe.Due to copy and paste, formatting has been lost.Let's start with the ending. Does that even count as an ending? I mean, we don't really know what happens! Does Skylar testify, does Jimmy go to jail? So many unanswered questions, and I really wanted to know the answe...
So sad and powerful. Review forthcoming.
I'm not sure what I was expecting when I requested this book for review but whatever I was expecting, I got more. This book follows a group of people in a Long Island town who are affected beaner hopping. We have the kids who are involved in the violence, their girlfriends, the principal at their sc...
I had been waiting to read this book for some time. In fact, I think this book was one of my Waiting on Wednesday picks sometime back in May or June. Every time I went to the bookstore in hopes of acquiring this book, it never quite worked out and I finally just ordered it online sometime back in ...
i'll try to get back to this